Pretending to be an astronaut? Nope.
There has been somewhat of a population explosion at Silver Hill Farm. Approximately 6,000 Russian Hybrid honey bees have arrived from Georgia via New Jersey.
What is this? A hitchhiker...believed to be an Italian strain bee (and dubbed "The Italian") who appears to have made the trip by clinging to the outside of a package. We couldn't waste such tenacity so she got dumped into one of our hives.
The key to our success...one of our queens. The bees have been placed in their hives and are (hopefully) working to release the queens by eating through the candy plug that keeps them contained to the small queen cages. The hive entrances are currently blocked in order to allow the bees to acclimate to the hives. Stay tuned for the release.
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